Income Tax rule 114B specifies the Transactions in relation to which permanent account number is to be quoted in all documents for the purpose of clause (c) of sub-section (5) of section 139A. It further says that where any person who does not have a permanent account number and who enters into any transaction specified in this rule, he shall make a declaration in Form No.60 giving therein the particulars of such transaction.

CBDT has now notified that above said declaration in Form No.60 giving therein the particulars of such transactions can be either in paper form or electronically under the electronic verification code in accordance with the procedures, data structures, and standards specified by the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or Director General of Income-tax (Systems)

G.S.R. 569(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 139A and section 285BA, read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:‑

1. (1) These rules may be called the Income –tax (14th Amendment) Rules, 2017.

(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in Official Gazette.

2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in rule 114B, in the second proviso, after the words, “giving therein the particulars of such transaction” the words “either in paper form or electronically under the electronic verification code in accordance with the procedures, data structures, and standards specified by the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or Director General of Income-tax (Systems)” shall be inserted.